Peernovo
Food and drink service and personal assistance workers

How to become a Hotel Room Attendant

Also called: Housekeeper, Bed maker, Room attendant, Hotel cleaner

Cleans and prepares hotel and ryokan rooms, making beds and cleaning bathrooms and toilets, so guests have a comfortable stay.

Main tasks

Workers in this job say high school is common. From job tag's survey of people in each job, who could give several answers. It shows what workers see as common, not how many workers hold each level.

How to become one

No particular education or qualification is required to start. Rooms are cleaned between one guest checking out and the next checking in. If one person handles about 10 rooms a day, there are only about 15 to 20 minutes for each room, so you need concentration and the organisation to work efficiently. When time is tight, two or three people may clean one room together, so teamwork and clear communication are important too. You need to like things clean and be careful and tidy, and a certain level of fitness is needed because making beds and similar tasks are physical. At hotels with many foreign guests, simple spoken English may be needed.

Pay · Job openings · AI and this job

Related jobs

Not sure this is for you? Take the 2-minute career quiz

Questions people ask

How do I become a Hotel Room Attendant?

No particular education or qualification is required to start. Rooms are cleaned between one guest checking out and the next checking in. If one person handles about 10 rooms a day, there are only about 15 to 20 minutes for each room, so you need concentration and the organisation to work efficiently. When time is tight, two or three people may clean one room together, so teamwork and clear communication are important too. You need to like things clean and be careful and tidy, and a certain level of fitness is needed because making beds and similar tasks are physical. At hotels with many foreign guests, simple spoken English may be needed.

How much does a Hotel Room Attendant earn in Japan?

Average annual income in the private sector, bonus included, is ¥3,623,600 (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). The figure is for the wage survey group Personal attendants (hotel and other), which covers several jobs.

Do you need a degree to become a Hotel Room Attendant?

Usually not. In this job's census occupation group, only 15% of workers are university graduates.

Will AI change the work of a Hotel Room Attendant?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

独立行政法人労働政策研究・研修機構（JILPT）作成 職業情報データベース 解説系ダウンロードデータ（IPD_DL_description_7_01.xlsx）ver.7.01 職業情報提供サイト（job tag）より2026年10月4日にダウンロード（https://shigoto.mhlw.go.jp/User/download）を加工して作成

独立行政法人労働政策研究・研修機構（JILPT）作成 職業情報データベース 簡易版数値系ダウンロードデータ（IPD_DL_numeric_7_00.xlsx）ver.7.00 職業情報提供サイト（job tag）より2026年10月4日にダウンロード（https://shigoto.mhlw.go.jp/User/download）を加工して作成

Sources: JILPT Occupational Information Database download data via job tag (解説系 ver.7.01 and 簡易版数値系 ver.7.00, downloaded 4 October 2026), processed by Peernovo; MHLW, Basic Survey on Wage Structure 2025; Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2020 Population Census; MEXT, School Basic Survey 2025; MHLW, Employment Referrals for General Workers (Hello Work statistics). Figures processed by Peernovo. English job names, translations and the matching of jobs to statistical groups, schools and degree fields by Peernovo.

Updated 4 October 2026